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CORSET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 668,436, dated February 19, 1901. Application iiled December 26, 1900. Serial No. 41,054. (No model.)

T0 a/ZZ whoml it may concern:

Beit known that LISAAC W.BIRDSEY, a citi- Zen of the United States, residing at Bridgeport, county of Fairieldtate of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful'Corset, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to the class of corsets consisting, essentially, of a body, vertical staypockets, and transverse bands lying under the stay-pockets; and my invention has :for its object to so improve the construction of this class of corsets as to enable me to provide a corset with an extrem ely light body, and which shall be thoroughly soft and flexible, so as to permit it to yield transversely and to follow and [it closely the contour of the bust, but without danger of the corset stretching out of shape. In other Words, I provide an extremely light and durable corset which shall be inexpensive to manufacture, Will yield readily to the contour of the figure, but will not stretch to any appreciable extent so as to lose its shape, which is an extremely important result, and one heretofore found extremely difficult to accomplish in light-weight corsets without making them too expensive to meet the general requirements of the trade. In order to accomplish the desired result, I have devised the novel corset whichI will now describe, in which the body of the corset is stayed and supported without loss of flexibility and at a minimum increase in Weight by a plurality of relatively wide transverse bands which I form from light strips of textile material made wider than the band and turned under at both edges, thereby combining both strength and fiexibility with lightness and provided with a single line of stitching at the mid-width of each band.

In the accompanying d1awings,fo1ming part this of specication, Figure l is an elevation of a half-corset, illustrating the application thereto of the principle of my invention; Fig. 2, an enlarged detail sectional view on the line 2 2 in Fig. l, and Fig. 3 is a perspective of an end of one of the transverse strips inverted and detached from'the body.

A denotes the body, B the vertical stay` pockets, and C transverse bands lying under the vertical stay-pockets. For these bands I preferably use torn strips of Woven textile material in preference to tapes or strips having a woven edge-that is to say, the result of combined iiexibility and strength, which is the object of my invention, is best attained by a relatively Wide strip With raw edges, both of said edges being turned under, as at 10. I have, furthermore, found in practice that while it is not desirable that the transverse bands should be locked to the body, it being decidedly preferable that the edges of the band should be free, it is equally undesirable to leave the transverse bands detached from the body except at the stay-pockets. Ihave found after experimenting with various modes of producing a light, iiexible, and inexpensive corset that Will not stretch out of shape that the best result is obtained by securing each transverse band to the body at its mid-width. This has led to my adoption in what I consider a perfected corset of the type described of the relatively Wide transverse bands formed from raw-edged textile strips turned under at the edges, which are left free and secured to the body by aline of stitching at the mid-Width. This line 0f, stitching I have indicated at 11.

Having thus described my invention, I claim- A corset comprising a body made of light flexible material, vertical stay-pockets secured thereto and transverse bands lying undey the stay-pockets, said bands being relatively Wide and made from raw-edged textile strips, the edges of said bands being turned under but left free and each band being secured to the body by a line of stitching at its mid-width.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

` ISAAC W. BIRDSEY. Witnesses:

A. M. WoosTER, S. W. ATHERTON. 

